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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Snowy
Meaning
Olympos is snowy both as the immortals’ seat at XXV.7 and as their mountain-head at LIX.12. The adjective gives a visible mountain quality to the divine abode; it does not change the referent into every place where snow falls.
Places to read
- Hymn XXV · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
νιφόεντος
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXV.7; LIX.12